You Choose Your Friends By Their Character

People Have An Idea That One Is In Control Of A Career, A Lot More Than You Really Are. You Can Engineer Things To An Extent. But You Are At The Mercy Of What Comes In Across The Desk.

At The Oscars, If You Didn't Vote For '12 Years A Slave' You Were A Racist.

That's What Sets Apart One Actor From Another, And That You Can't Teach. You Can't Give Someone That. When You're Working, Putting A Character Together, Or In A Scene, That's Where Things Will Happen That You Have To Have The Intuition To Notice Them, And To Register Them.

To Be Able To Do This Job In The First Place You've Got To Have A Bit Of An Ego.

How Many Movies Do You See When You Can Say This Director Really Knew What Film He Wanted To Make? I Can Count Them On The Fingers Of One Hand.